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Cbenesch: /* Recipes */

== Our Founder ==
[[Staff/Chris Vinci|Chris Vinci]]

== Tutorials ==

=== Agar ===
[[Tutorials/Agar/Three-Transfers|Three Transfer Procedure]]

=== Liquid Culture ===

==== Recipes ====
[[Reference/LiquidCulture/Recipes/PGT|Philly Golden Teacher LC]]

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Reference/LiquidCulture/Recipes/PGT

2026-04-09T14:04:09Z

Cbenesch: Created page with "This recipe is from Philly Golden Teacher on Youtube and a perfectly viable and great recipe to use * 600 ml water * 18-20g Karo * 1.5g Dry Light Malt Extract * 1g Peptone Pressure cook at 15psi for 30 min (45-60 at 6000ft elevation, or increase by 2-3 psi.) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XWVbkc--QE Philly Golden Teacher Liquid Culture Video]"

This recipe is from Philly Golden Teacher on Youtube and a perfectly viable and great recipe to use

* 600 ml water
* 18-20g Karo
* 1.5g Dry Light Malt Extract
* 1g Peptone

Pressure cook at 15psi for 30 min (45-60 at 6000ft elevation, or increase by 2-3 psi.)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XWVbkc--QE Philly Golden Teacher Liquid Culture Video]

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2026-04-09T13:56:52Z

Cbenesch:

== Our Founder ==
[[Staff/Chris Vinci|Chris Vinci]]

== Tutorials ==

=== Agar ===
[[Tutorials/Agar/Three-Transfers|Three Transfer Procedure]]

=== Liquid Culture ===

==== Recipes ====

=== Computers ===
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[[Tips-And-Tricks/Computer/Linux/Shell-Commands|Shell Command Reference]]

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Tips-And-Tricks/Computer/Linux/Shell-Commands

2026-02-28T15:44:24Z

Cbenesch:

Linux is a growing and popular operating system, especially for us citizen mycologists, and unknown to a lot of first-time users, it has an extensive set of wonderful tools that can do things that are nearly black magic in Windows or even to the casual Macintosh user.

As a MacOS user, you too have access to most of these commands as well (surprisingly without having to pay an exhorberant fee to use them too!). Mac OS is based on an offshoot of the original AT&T Unix called BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), and as such has most of the core shell commands at your disposal.

== Pipes, Redirection, and Sub-shells ==

=== Pipes ===

Every process in a *nix command shell, and part of this is even implemented in Windows as well has three main input channels.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Standard File Descriptors
|-
! Name
! FD
! Description
|-
| stdin
| 0
| Standard In represents the input to a command, either read from the users terminal, or from the output of another command.
|-
| stdout
| 1
| Standard Out represents the normal output of a command. This is what normally gets printed to the terminal and is not an error or specialty message
|-
| stderr
| 2
| Standard error represents error conditions or things the program wants to display to the user despite if the command is being redirected or piped.
|}

Processes can be joined together using the symbol <code>|</code> (usually shift backslash). What this does is send the output of the left command into the input of the right command. This can be done an arbitrary number of times, building very powerful and complex text processing.

Example: List any files from December
<code>ls -l | grep -iw Dec</code>

=== Redirection ===
=== Sub-Shells ===

== File Compression and Extraction ==

There are two main compression utilities out there that can take a directory and compress it all into a single file, allowing you to move it to another computer, either in your home or on the internet, and then extract it there. Depending on the source or destination computer may make the decision as to the best.

zip/unzip - Compatible with Micro$oft Windows since Windows XP
tar - Compatible with Linux, or any Unix-compatible operating system, including macOS.

=== zip/unzip ===
==== Compression ====
The <code>zip</code> command packs files into a zip archive, which can be read on the host machine pretty much universally.
The general format is

<code>
zip [flags] destination[.zip] file list
</code>

Where the .zip extension is optional.
To zip a list of files in the SAME directory, you can use

<code>
zip filename.zip file1 file2 file3 ...
</code>

To zip an entire directory structure you can use the "r" flag and it will descend through the whole structure adding everything found to the archive.

<code>
zip -r docs.zip Documents
</code>

==== Extraction ====
The <code>unzip</code> command does the opposite of zip and extracts files. It does have a set of flags you can use in special sitautions, but there is really only one important one in every day use

<code>-l</code>

The -l flag says to list the contents instead of actually extracting the files.

<code>unzip -l zipfile.zip</code> Will list all of the files in the archive

<code>unzip zipfile.zip</code> Will extract the files from the archive into the current directory

=== tar ===

The <code>tar</code> command basically operates the same as the zip command but can provide multiple types of compression. It stands for "Tape ARchive" and heralds from the early days when computers literally had reel-to-reel tapes.

<code>tar [flags] archive [file1 file2 file3]</code>

The most commonly used flags are:
* <code>c</code> Create the archive
* <code>x</code> Extract the archive
* <code>v</code> Be verbose (display the files extracted/added)
* <code>f filename</code> Filename to create or extract from
* <code>z</code> Compress using zlib (fast, decent compression)
* <code>j</code> Compress using bzip2 (medium speed, better compression)
* <code>J</code> Compress using xz (medium speed, good compression)

Please make sure to include a compression type when creating a tar archive. With no compression, it can take a huge amount of space with standard tar. Again, this is due to its origin in creating data for reel-to-reel tapes.

=== Working with a single file ===

Sometimes you may need to compress only a single file to reduce its size, like to transfer a video over the internet or something. There are several tools to do this with. As a general rule of thumb, the better the compression, the longer it takes to run. Although each command has uninque parameters that can be passed to it, in general the format is <code>(tool) filename</code> which will create filename.exstention .

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Common Compression Utilities
|-
! Name
! Compression
! Decompression
! Speed
! Compression Amount
! Extension
|-
! GZip (Zlib)
| gzip
| gunzip
| Fast
| Medium/Low
| .gz
|-
! Bzip2
| bzip2
| bunzip2
| Slow
| High
| .bz / .bz2
|-
! Xz/LZW
| xz
| unxz
| Medium/Slow
| Exceptional
| .xz
|}

Tips-And-Tricks/Computer/Linux/Shell-Commands

2026-02-28T15:02:25Z

Cbenesch:

Linux is a growing and popular operating system, especially for us citizen mycologists, and unknown to a lot of first-time users, it has an extensive set of wonderful tools that can do things that are nearly black magic in Windows or even to the casual Macintosh user.

As a MacOS user, you too have access to most of these commands as well (surprisingly without having to pay an exhorberant fee to use them too!). Mac OS is based on an offshoot of the original AT&T Unix called BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), and as such has most of the core shell commands at your disposal.

== File Compression / Extraction ==

There are two main compression utilities out there that can take a directory and compress it all into a single file, allowing you to move it to another computer, either in your home or on the internet, and then extract it there. Depending on the source or destination computer may make the decision as to the best.

zip/unzip - Compatible with Micro$oft Windows since Windows XP
tar - Compatible with Linux, or any Unix-compatible operating system, including macOS.

=== zip/unzip ===
==== Compression ====
The <code>zip</code> command packs files into a zip archive, which can be read on the host machine pretty much universally.
The general format is

<code>
zip [flags] destination[.zip] file list
</code>

Where the .zip extension is optional.
To zip a list of files in the SAME directory, you can use

<code>
zip filename.zip file1 file2 file3 ...
</code>

To zip an entire directory structure you can use the "r" flag and it will descend through the whole structure adding everything found to the archive.

<code>
zip -r docs.zip Documents
</code>

==== Extraction ====
The <code>unzip</code> command does the opposite of zip and extracts files. It does have a set of flags you can use in special sitautions, but there is really only one important one in every day use

<code>-l</code>

The -l flag says to list the contents instead of actually extracting the files.

<code>unzip -l zipfile.zip</code> Will list all of the files in the archive

<code>unzip zipfile.zip</code> Will extract the files from the archive into the current directory

=== tar ===

The <code>tar</code> command basically operates the same as the zip command but can provide multiple types of compression. It stands for "Tape ARchive" and heralds from the early days when computers literally had reel-to-reel tapes.

<code>tar [flags] archive [file1 file2 file3]</code>

The most commonly used flags are:
* <code>c</code> Create the archive
* <code>x</code> Extract the archive
* <code>v</code> Be verbose (display the files extracted/added)
* <code>f filename</code> Filename to create or extract from
* <code>z</code> Compress using zlib (fast, decent compression)
* <code>j</code> Compress using bzip2 (medium speed, better compression)
* <code>J</code> Compress using xz (medium speed, good compression)

Please make sure to include a compression type when creating a tar archive. With no compression, it can take a huge amount of space with standard tar. Again, this is due to its origin in creating data for reel-to-reel tapes.

=== Working with a single file ===

Sometimes you may need to compress only a single file to reduce its size, like to transfer a video over the internet or something. There are several tools to do this with. As a general rule of thumb, the better the compression, the longer it takes to run. Although each command has uninque parameters that can be passed to it, in general the format is <code>(tool) filename</code> which will create filename.exstention .

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Common Compression Utilities
|-
! Name
! Compression
! Decompression
! Speed
! Compression Amount
! Extension
|-
! GZip (Zlib)
| gzip
| gunzip
| Fast
| Medium/Low
| .gz
|-
! Bzip2
| bzip2
| bunzip2
| Slow
| High
| .bz / .bz2
|-
! Xz/LZW
| xz
| unxz
| Medium/Slow
| Exceptional
| .xz
|}

Tips-And-Tricks/Computer/Linux/Shell-Commands

2026-02-28T02:25:35Z

Cbenesch:

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2026-02-28T01:53:06Z

Cbenesch:

== Our Founder ==
[[Staff/Chris Vinci|Chris Vinci]]

== Tutorials ==

=== Agar ===
[[Tutorials/Agar/Three-Transfers|Three Transfer Procedure]]

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[[Tips-And-Tricks/Computer/Linux/Shell-Commands|Shell Command Reference]]

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Tips-And-Tricks/Computer/Linux/Shell-Commands

2026-02-28T01:50:50Z

Cbenesch: Created page with "Linux is a growing and popular operating system, especially for us citizen mycologists, and unknown to a lot of first-time users, it has an extensive set of wonderful tools that can do things that are nearly black magic in Windows or even to the casual Macintosh user. As a MacOS user, you too have access to most of these commands as well (surprisingly without having to pay an exhorberant fee to use them too!). Mac OS is based on an offshoot of the original AT&T Unix cal..."

Staff/Chris Vinci

2026-02-24T08:50:45Z

Cbenesch:

Christopher Vinci is the founder of the Pikes Peak Myco League

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2026-02-24T08:45:41Z

Cbenesch:

== Our Founder ==
[[Staff/Chris Vinci|Chris Vinci]]

== Tutorials ==

=== Agar ===
[[Tutorials/Agar/Three-Transfers|Three Transfer Procedure]]

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2026-02-24T08:44:20Z

Cbenesch: /* Our Founder */

== Our Founder ==
[[People/Chris_Vinci]]

== Tutorials ==

=== Agar ===
[[Tutorials/Agar/Three-Transfers|Three Transfer Procedure]]

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2026-02-24T08:43:23Z

Cbenesch: Created page with "Christopher Vinci is the founder of the Pikes Peak Mycological Society"

Christopher Vinci is the founder of the Pikes Peak Mycological Society

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2026-02-24T08:42:04Z

Cbenesch:

== Our Founder ==

== Tutorials ==

=== Agar ===
[[Tutorials/Agar/Three-Transfers|Three Transfer Procedure]]

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Tutorials/Agar/Three-Transfers

2026-02-24T08:07:48Z

Cbenesch:

= Overview =

When working with agar plates, a lot of times we see them with a T number, and you may have even heard the term "transfer three times". This page will demonstrate and explain the concept and method of the "3 transfer" methodology.

== Genetic Selection ==

One of the desirable genetics of any cultivable mushroom species is fast colonization. This leads to less risk of contamination of the growing medium, faster lifecycle from inoculation to harvest, and stronger mycelium.
[[File:20260221 120037.jpg|thumb]]

File:20260221 120037.jpg

2026-02-24T08:05:56Z

Cbenesch: Series of agar plates showing 3 transfer method

== Summary ==
Series of agar plates showing 3 transfer method

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Cbenesch: Add three transfer link

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[[Tutorials/Agar/Three-Transfers|Three Transfer Procedure]]

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Tutorials/Agar/Three-Transfers

2026-02-24T07:39:41Z

Cbenesch: Created page with "= Overview = When working with agar plates, a lot of times we see them with a T number, and you may have even heard the term "transfer three times". This page will demonstrate and explain the concept and method of the "3 transfer" methodology. == Genetic Selection == One of the desirable genetics of any cultivable mushroom species is fast colonization. This leads to less risk of contamination of the growing medium, faster lifecycle from inoculation to harvest, and str..."

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2026-02-24T07:30:58Z

Cbenesch: Example for other editors

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2026-02-24T07:28:05Z

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== Getting started ==
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